Achord, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Chauncey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31037. The Survey maps it on the McRae quadrangle.

Achord within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Mc Rae quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Achord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,194 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 94 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	235
Arson/incendiarism	94
Equipment and vehicle use	43
Natural	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DODGE-014
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WHEELER016
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jay Bird Springs	2.6 miles	8
Cox (historical)	2.8 miles	8
Sigurd (historical)	3.0 miles	9
Chauncey	5.1 miles	8
Pitts	5.2 miles	8
McCranie	6.5 miles	8
Godwinsville	8.6 miles	9
Saunders	8.8 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Achord	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050758	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326149. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.